Lingering COVID issues.... Taste and Smell

[Mesa_John]

It seems like an eternity ago, but COVID nearly killed me back in 2021.  I spent 9 days in the Hospital and a collapsed lung made it even worse.  

I will never forget the morning of Day 8 in the hospital.  I placed my order for breakfast, my first meal in about 12 days.  When the nurse walked in the room with the scrambled eggs and bacon, I immediately started dry heaving at the smell and they had to take the food out of the room.  

I grew up on a ranch and on occasion we would find a dead cow that was at the height of being eaten up by maggots.  Once you smell that rotten flesh, you will never forget it and that morning in the hospital..... yeah, that is what the bacon and eggs smelled like.

For the next 6 months I struggled eating anything with protein because of the taste and smell issues.  Yep, COVID really messed up my taste and smell for a while.  Eventually, I mostly returned to normal, but on occasion some meats still give me a whiff of that rotten smell, when there is nothing wrong with the meat.  This morning is one of those moments.  This morning it is the scrambled eggs the wife made for breakfast.  UGH... I normally love eggs and when this happens it is frustrating, especially when that is all I have to eat.

Anyone else struggled with something similar while doing carnivore?

 

[Scott F.]

I am sort of at the top of the list of the at-risk groups when Covid came along. I had it twice and had all the same symptoms, exactly the same symptoms, in December of 2019, before "it ever got here". 

I lost the taste for sugar. Anything with sugar tasted horrible. I had been a life-long Mountain Dew/Pepsi drinker and they both were putrid. It lasted for about six months or so. In time it passed, and I was right back on the bottle (soft drink bottle) again. I never had issues afterwards. I didn't lose taste nor smell like a lot of people did but it did make sugar taste horrible.

No issues since 2022 and I didn't start carnivore til May of 24. 

Scott

[Geezy]

I’ve heard about that but I never experienced it. I think I had covid once but I never got tested. I had all of the symptoms everyone talks about but didn’t lose my taste or smell. I just didn’t feel like eating for a couple of days.

I can’t imagine losing my taste for food and especially smelling the smell of death when it’s around and yes, I know that smell very well myself.

The closest I can relate to is getting food poisoning from a bad clam once. It was probably about ten years before I could bear to eat another clam again.

Sorry you are having to go through this. I hope it passes soon.


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[Bob]

I've had covid twice but it didn't affect my taste or smell. It did for some of my friends. One guy could eat an onion like an apple, the potent kind that would make you cry, and not even taste it. He said it was the weirdest thing. Another friend and his wife thought their ketchup had gone bad, so they threw it away and bought another bottle and it was also bad-tasting. Turned out the ketchup was fine, it was their taste that was off.

I've sometimes been hungry but not very motivated to "eat another steak" lol, but I had to or else it was going to go bad. I try to mix things up from day to day to break up the monotony.